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Adaptive reuse project brings new music venue to Williamsburgh

Michael Cooper reports for The New York Times: Factory Conversion Moves Forward The effort to turn a century-old sawdust factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, into an acoustically sound concert hall, recording studio, nightclub and center for composers is moving ahead, with organizers saying that they have raised the $16 million needed to finish construction. The space on North 6th Street, called the Original...

Some designs make adaptive-reuse seem harder

Some designs make adaptive-reuse seem harder

Jessica Dailey reports for Curbed: For 'Newer, Odder' Buildings, Historic Preservation Is Tough During discussions of why the American Folk Art Museum, and its geometric cooper and bronze facade, could not be incorporated into the Museum of Modern Art's expansion, one of the architects working on the expansion plan called the Folk Art Museum's design, "bespoke," meaning "that the architects Tod Williams and...

Concerns about Two Trees and SHoP's proposal for Domino Sugar Factory

Concerns about Two Trees and SHoP’s proposal for Domino Sugar Factory

The Architect's Newspaper: Crit> Alternative Domino Proposal. Recounting the bittersweet history of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory, Molly Heintz says the city deserves better.     To those of us in the neighborhood, long-suffering Domino feels more like a person than a project. Reborn as a development site in 2004, the defunct sugar refinery complex on the Williamsburg waterfront has gone through a rocky childhood....

Beautiful building and a great example of Adaptive reuse

Nice to see such a beautiful example of Beaux-Arts Architecture is part of an Adaptive Reuse project. Karissa Rosenfield reports for Archdaily: LAN Chosen to Revamp Paris’ Grand Palais After a nine-month long competition, LAN Architecture has been commissioned to restructure and extend the historic Grand Palais in Paris. With the intent to “restore the building’s original coherence and sense of transparency,” LAN plans to...